A young woman reads during Mass at St. Anne Church in Garden City, N.Y., in this Jan. 28, 2018, file photo. On Jan. 11, 2021, Pope Francis ordered a change to the Code of Canon Law so that women may ...
Pope Francis issued a document, "Spiritus Domini" (The Spirit of the Lord) Jan. 11, changing canon law to allow both women and men to be installed formally or "admitted on a stable basis through the ...